I’ve never reused mine, but you probably could wash it. We just had a number of thin, white dishtowels that we used. I cut them up into 4 squares because you don’t really need that much to press it.

Also, as far as presses go, someone on the forum had said they used a potato ricer to press their tinctures. I picked one up and I gotta say, it is the way to go until you need to size up and get serious about making lots of tinctures.

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william hoffman, Wanda Breighner

No reason to not wash and re-use them.

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william hoffman

I bought one of these quite a while back and for under $35 this has been the absolute bomb for pressing tinctures!  You can put a lot of pressure on it, and it squeezes the marc out really dry (and then I mix up all my dried marc and put it in my garden beds to feed my earthworms!).  See if you don’t think this is an herbalist’s dream tool: countertop ricer  Even hubby is super impressed with this very inexpensive tool that (in my opinion) does as well as those super expensive huge presses!  Only negative is that you have to use something like a very fine lightweight mesh or {gulp grimace} panty hose because of the thickness of the “cloth”.  Other than that one minor negative, it’s THE tool for this hobbiest!

• This reply was modified 4 months, 3 weeks ago by Sharon.

I use flour towels. They are inexpensive at big box stores. I reuse them over and over. They become stained but if it doesn’t come out in the wash I figure it won’t when straining tinctures. I do not use soap powders. just hot water. I don’t want soap residual in the tincture. I do not put in dryer for the same reason but air dry them.